flood-prone area

flood-prone area

An area that has a 1 percent probability of flooding in any given year.Although popularly known as an area that will flood sometime in a 100-year period, this characterization is technically inaccurate.

The River Rouge project included the rehabilitation of 1,574 feet of a 1930s-vintage, 66-inch diameter brick sewer in a flood-prone area where nearby homes had required costly repairs after sustaining flood damage.

Meanwhile, a former director general of the Royal Irrigation Department warned also that Bang Kradi Industrial Estate in Pathum Thani could probably be the next to be hit by floods after Nava Nakorn as it is located in a flood-prone area.

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